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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1909
Page
3
A century old advice page addresses college romance, letter writing, and social etiquette. Readers ask about calling, arranging visits, and appropriate dress for events, with Miss Grey offering practical guidance on communication and presentation.
A discussion of how women around forty should avoid girlishness or aging into a dowdy role. The text argues 40 is the ripe prime of life with quiet confidence, where experience guides choices in fashion and spending. It emphasizes practical shopping, self awareness, and contentment over youth fixation.
In Chicago a curious occult scandal unfolds as Prof Marshall Clark known as Niblo sues Miss Antoniette Elizabeth Gazzam for 150000. Mme Mizpah claims the two lovers schemed for wealth while astrology and trance rituals drew in clients and money.
Simple methods for preparing chocolate cake include grinding chocolate and melting it in a double boiler, with notes on icing. Quick sponge cake icing uses pulverized sugar vanilla lemon and cream or milk, plus almonds for a firm finish. A cheap cake frosting suggests orange peel with sugar and water, while a rich dough relies on sugar molasses lard hot milk ginger soda and salt to form a stiff dough ready to roll.
A compact recipe fragment lists ingredients for a quick batter: sugar, molasses, sour milk, ginger, cinnamon, flour, egg, and baking soda dissolved in water. The notes suggest basic proportions for a rustic baked good.
A simple recipe mixes butter and sugar then adds milk. Flour with baking powder blends into the batter. Chopped apple is folded in before pouring into gem pans. The batter rests briefly on the stove top prior to baking.
A fragmented ingredient list includes brown sugar, molasses, milk, flour, baking powder, raisins, currants, citron, spices, and ambiguous quantities such as percent signs and exes. It resembles a baking batter or fruit cake mix with mixed measurements.
The text describes washing and preparing fruit with a spice blend including allspice cinnamon nutmeg and cloves. It instructs placing spices in a cheese cloth bag and cooking fruit slowly until tender. It mentions a dark thick rich result and storing in stone jars.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions parsley thyme marjoram celery and mace tied in a cloth bag used in soups. It references a needlework technique to darn fabric and notes the term phi darn in relation to medical comfort.
The dry wash is a luxury turned necessity for traveling women. It uses worn linen handkerchiefs to wipe dust, cold cream, cooling lotion, and face powder from a sleeper berth to refresh skin. The method is described as a dainty, efficient routine done in the train berth.
Frail OCR fragment mentions a diagonal street coat and bakery department ordering. It hints at a restaurant setting and a jarstry system but lacks clear facts or names. Reading suggests an old notice or catalog snippet about apparel and departmental orders without complete details.
Practical household hints cover preserving cheese, reading recipes without overhandling books, making a perfume bag with cloves nutmeg and caraway, moth prevention, hair dye protection, screen cleaning, skirt support, lace collar care, umbrella reuse, and plant tying with raffia or ribbed supports.
The passage describes fashion shifts with tebt skirts giving way to shorter and long coats reaching near the skirt hem. It notes uses of crepes and satin for capes and millinery, colors like coal dust grey, and gold or silver threads in silks. Subdued tones, basket weave ribbons, changeable trims, and a one piece garment combining corset cover, skirt, and flowers are highlighted as popular options.
Fragmentary ad copy asserts that Hic tonics destroy hair issues and Leary's non alcoholic compound improves life, cures dandruff and grayness. Mentions druggists and barbers.
A sale feature describes a group of tailored suits priced at 25 dollars. The garments include serge, cheviots, novelty tweeds and diagonals with 40 to 42 inch coats satin lined. Styles are plain-tailored with stitched cuffs pockets and varied skirts, in gray brown navy olive black and mannish mixtures. Firet Floor.
Recent arrivals in Cloth Capes for women and misses feature chiffon broadcloth cheviot and novelty serges in full circular designs. Capses vary from plain to trim with braid gilt soutache and buttons, in colors cadet blue navy olive gray waistaria tan and maroon. Prices range 14.75 to 35.00. First Floor.
Advertises a wide range of net bands and trims priced from 75 cents to 3.50 dollars per yard. Features separable silk net bands, embroidered designs in gold and silk threads, jeweled accents, and varied widths for gowns, capes, and evening wear. Includes black net bands with soutache, bugle heads, and beaded fish-net options in multiple colors.
Advertises Japanese Mink and Black Fox furs with neck pieces stoles and muffs at low prices. Items include Mink Stoles priced 35 18 12 75 14 75 15 75 19 50 and muffs 29 50 22 50 18 75 14 75 16 75 plus Black Fox Stoles 32 50 20 00 15 75 35 00 and matching Rug Muffs 32 50 12 00 14 75 22 50.
A historic catalog lists items such as Violet’s Ambre Royal Perfume at 1 45, Kerkoff’s Djerkiss at 1 50, Piver perfumes Azurea Le Trefle Vivitz and Safranor at 1 20, Whitlatch perfumes 1 50, Pinaud Violette de Parme 5c, 4711 Eau de Cologne 50c, Palmer’s Toilet Water Lilac Sweets Rose Leaves and other scents, Santiseptic Lotion 50c, Bazin depilatory 50c, Roger Gallett Rice Powder 25c, Genuine Orange-wood Sticks 10c, Witch-Hazel Sticks 25c per dozen.
The Drapery Section introduces a new line of imported Curtain Madras from sheer draping fabrics in harmonious color blends. Options include two-tone browns tans greens and light grounds with small or large figures. Also White Grenadine for bed sets and curtains at 65c to 1.50 per yard.
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